Open the brackets ( use past simple or past perfect ) 1. i ( expect) that russia is a cold country and i ( find ) it ( be ) true. 2.she ( be born) before the war (begin 3.captain cook ( discover th island before he ( die ) 4. our parents ( get married) after they ( meet) two years ago

I expected that Russia is a cold country and I had found it was true.
She had been born before the war began.
Captain Cook had discovered the island before he died.
Our parents had got married after they met two years ago.

I hang 1) out at the shops but didn't have any money to spend. Then, one day, I bumped 2) into an old friend whose dad had his own business and we started chatting. We got 3) on well with each other and he told me that his father might give me a job, so we went to see him. He was great and I started the next day, working in his toy shop. I spent most of the first day fooling 4) around with the model trains! I don't know how he put 5) up with my behaviour, but eventually I calmed 6) down and now, five years later.

The baba-yaga is one of the most negative estimates of character and an external image of the woman. And one of the annoying. Actually, if to deal with deep sense of such phenomenon as the Baba-yaga, our attitude towards her can change in a certain measure. "According to the Russian Tradition, the image of the Baba-yaga is connected with legends about transition of the hero to the other world (A fairy kingdom). In these legends the Woman - Yaga standing on border of the worlds, serves as the conductor allowing the hero to get into the world dead" * (to kill Zmey Gorynych or to ruin Koschei the Immortal to return (to release) the bride (country), thanks to commission of certain rituals.